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Judith Cowan (sculptor)

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Judith Cowan (born in 1954) is a British artist who lives in London. She works in sculpture, installation, photography, and film.

double act, 2018, nickel-plated bronze, nylon and fans, 180 x 75 x 150 cm [1]
Judith Cowan (2019)

Life and work

From 1974 to 1977, Cowan studied sculpture at Sheffield Polytechnic and later at Chelsea School of Art and Design from 1977 to 1978.[2] In 1978–79, she was awarded the Gulbenkian Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome.[2]

Between 1980 and 2016, she taught in Fine Art at Goldsmith College, Chelsea School of Art and Design and Middlesex University[3] amongst others.

Cowan has exhibited in solo shows at Camden Arts Centre (1993),[4][5] Studio Stefania Miscetti (1995 and 2000),[6][5] Kettle's Yard in Cambridge (1996),[5][2] Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea in Rome (2005),[7] Erica Ravenna Arte Contemporanea in Rome (2006),[5][8] Finnegan’s Teeth project in London (2009)[9] and traveled to Prague (2010).[10][5] The films Angelica and The Palace of Raw Dreams were made in collaboration with the Antonio Pasqualino Museo in Palermo (2012 and 2013).[11] Both films were exhibited at the Antonio Pasqualino Museo then Angelica travelled to the Sharjah Art Foundation (2014).[5]

Angelica, 2013, film still. [12] Exhibited at the Antonio Pasqualino Museum, Palermo in 2014, 2018[13] and at the Sharjah Art Foundation in 2018.[14]

She received awards from the Henry Moore Foundation in 1998, 1996 and 1992; The Elephant Trust in 1993 and was a prize-winner at Rassegna Internazionale di Scultura Contemporanea,[2] San Marino, Italy in 1979.

Her work is in the collections of The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Arts Council of Great Britain;[15] the Hechinger Collection,[16] US; Government Art Collection,[17] London Borough of Tower Hamlets; Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome; Rugby Museum & Art Gallery [9] and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.[18]

Bibliography

  • Emily LaBarge, Paola Nicita, Rosario Perricone, Angelica, London, 2013
  • Finnegan’s Teeth, RGAP, Sheffield, 2009 (Artist's book)
  • S. Santacatterina, S. Lux, D. Scudero, Judith Cowan: The Capacity of Things: From Life, Luxflux, Rome, 2005
  • Jean Fisher, present.....passing, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 1998
  • Jean Fisher, Passages & Incidents, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 1996
  • Andrew Wilson, Water Rises, Camden Arts Centre, London, 1993

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